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b. April 24, 1894 · Buffalo Blues 1915, Detroit Tigers 1916–1917, 1919–1922, Boston Red Sox 1923–1926, Philadelphia Athletics 1926–1930

He had made eight starts all season and won seven games when Connie Mack gave him the first game of the 1929 World Series ahead of Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw. He struck out thirteen Cubs, more than anyone had in a World Series game, and won it 3-1. He was thirty-five and never pitched a full season again.

Fifteen seasons gave him 166 wins against 166, a 3.75 earned run average, 2,820 innings and 199 complete games. He won 20 games for a Boston club that lost 91 in 1923 and threw a no-hitter that September, and in his next start allowed one hit — an infield single the scorer might have called an error.

He began in the Federal League with Buffalo in 1915 and ended with Philadelphia. He ran a tarpaulin company in Philadelphia afterward and held patents on the fabric. Nine writers' ballots gave him no more than twelve votes. He died in 1959, at sixty-four.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
Baseball Magazine All-Star	1	1923

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1915	BUF	18	12	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	.000
1916	DET	5	14	1	2	0	0	1	0	5	0	.143
1917	DET	35	69	3	17	2	0	2	4	13	0	.246
1919	DET	33	91	6	23	3	1	5	3	12	0	.253
1920	DET	38	105	4	25	7	2	5	0	10	0	.238
1921	DET	30	74	9	21	3	1	9	1	7	0	.284
1922	DET	45	102	6	16	4	1	8	2	10	0	.157
1923	BOS	43	112	4	25	3	0	7	2	11	0	.223
1924	BOS	46	126	14	28	2	0	14	5	9	4	.222
1925	BOS	34	88	6	13	2	0	5	4	11	0	.148
1926	BOS/PHA	35	80	6	12	3	0	8	3	11	1	.150
1927	PHA	30	68	5	14	5	0	3	0	4	0	.206
1928	PHA	23	46	6	11	3	1	5	1	3	0	.239
1929	PHA	11	19	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	.105
1930	PHA	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333
Career	—	429	1009	71	210	38	6	73	26	111	5	.208

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1915	BUF	0	2	18	2	0	53.2	69	33	25	18	5.53
1916	DET	3	1	5	4	0	37.1	34	13	15	15	3.13
1917	DET	10	15	35	25	2	206.0	174	68	88	90	2.97
1919	DET	17	10	33	31	0	248.2	255	88	107	79	3.18
1920	DET	15	18	38	33	3	268.1	250	97	124	98	3.25
1921	DET	13	14	30	22	0	196.1	220	99	81	68	4.54
1922	DET	17	17	45	30	1	279.2	299	131	101	108	4.22
1923	BOS	20	17	43	39	3	316.2	318	133	119	121	3.78
1924	BOS	19	17	45	36	4	315.0	324	121	81	119	3.46
1925	BOS	9	20	34	31	1	260.2	285	108	85	95	3.73
1926	BOS/PHA	15	14	34	32	0	244.2	240	105	95	93	3.86
1927	PHA	12	10	30	27	0	189.2	200	89	60	68	4.22
1928	PHA	9	8	23	18	0	139.1	135	56	44	34	3.62
1929	PHA	7	2	11	8	0	54.2	48	20	15	20	3.29
1930	PHA	0	1	3	1	0	10.0	22	13	2	4	11.70
Career	—	166	166	427	339	14	2820.2	2873	1174	1042	1030	3.75

On this day & linked events

1894

Born April 24, 1894

Silver Creek, NY, USA

1959

Died March 17, 1959

1915

Major-league debut: Howard Ehmke

Howard Ehmke made a major-league debut on April 12, 1915.

1923

Howard Ehmke's No-Hitter

Howard Ehmke threw a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox against the Philadelphia Athletics on September 7, 1923, winning 4–0.

1930

Final major-league game: Howard Ehmke

Howard Ehmke played a final major-league game on May 22, 1930.

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